Lightworks announced the release of Iray for 3DS Max, which enables Max users to take advantage of the rendering capabilities of Iray+. Iray+ extends the Iray implementation currently included in Max with features such as full MDL support, improved approach to using and creating physically-accurate materials and support for cloud or remote rendering. The Iray for 3DS Max plugin is offered through rental licensing only, at $295 per year, with the server license costing an additional $295. More on Lightworks and NVidia.
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Soooo… 295$/year per license, so to maintain a 10 nodes renderfarm (without workstation) you need to pay 2950$/year + the 3ds max or maya rent, so just Max+iRay cost is 4595.6$/year aprox… just for max + iray, something you have in 2015 subscription for 600$/year… how cool is that mates?
Welcome to the new ear, the rental only era where companies think that we are silly boys…
To make it confusing, they don’t say anything about node costs. We don’t know if nodes are free or if they require a license. The license server (additional $295) is for floating licenses on workstations, otherwise it is node locked to your workstation. The information is pretty limited on the site and their store as to what the costs really are for distributed rendering.
I think they have the same concept as Arnold, wich is not the best, anyways, renting only is not the best either… and that concept is that there is no “node” license, just licenses, node or not…
BTW!!! I’m sory.. my calcs are all wrong 😛
Those cals is to maintain a 9 nodes farm + 1 workstation, I’m sorry for that mistake, anyways, what I said stands exactly the same…
Cheers!